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bigstar · 01-31-2016, 09:48 PM

By special characters are you referring to symbols?

Such as !@#$%^&*()[]{};':",./<>?

If so there should not be any issues using these characters in FlashFXP.

When you export a site any field that contains special characters are automatically escaped by the xml library, and when importing xml the escaped characters are transformed back to their actual values.

Now if you're referring to UTF-8 characters, there might be an issue in some cases where FlashFXP does not detect the SFTP server as one that supports UTF-8 passwords, in these situations FlashFXP will send the password using the system locale, and on failure it will try again, this time sending the password UTF-8 encoded.

01-31-2016, 09:48 PM
bigstar FlashFXP Developer Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 8,012	By special characters are you referring to symbols? Such as !@#$%^&*()[]{};':",./<>? If so there should not be any issues using these characters in FlashFXP. When you export a site any field that contains special characters are automatically escaped by the xml library, and when importing xml the escaped characters are transformed back to their actual values. Now if you're referring to UTF-8 characters, there might be an issue in some cases where FlashFXP does not detect the SFTP server as one that supports UTF-8 passwords, in these situations FlashFXP will send the password using the system locale, and on failure it will try again, this time sending the password UTF-8 encoded.